they'll be forced to shut down operations now president from called on the government to make fun of ailill to u.s. oil and gas industry after promising in a tweet that he quote would never let the great us oil and gas industry down so currently is unclear exactly what will happen but it's actually he is allowing these donkey firms to live longer and produce more oil basically adding to the worsening situation so as the old saying goes the old the only cure for low oil prices are even lower oil prices so in that environment the u.s. with its high cost producers is just not competitive well kristie oil prices went negative what does that mean for this for this going forward. so basically as futures contracts expire they tend to converge with the realities of the physical market and as he says or space is running out the physical market is so overwhelmed at this point so as many of the paper traders are unable to actually accept physical delivery traders ended up paying someone to take oil off their hands so while the may contract was an anomaly who's to say that the june contract won't be eq